So I’ll describe how my interest in this method arose and increased:

1. The first step was my decision, at the end of 1989, to participate in the exchange programme ERASMUS with the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (under supervision of Drs. Bert Van Der Linden), as part of a Masters course in Science of Education (begun in the academic year 1989/90 at the University of Coimbra). During the first semester of 1990, VIDEO-HOMETRAINING, which had been in operation in Holland since the 80's, came to my attention, and I made contact with some of the people involved in the scheme. As V.H.T. was still in an 'intuitive/subjective' phase, information about it was scanty, and it had a certain aura of mysticism. Thus, there was very little literature or research available on the subject, and it was difficult to draw any parallels or theorize about it. Anyway I felt quickly attracted and interested to that way of working with the family, instead of working for them, by principles of VHT method.